However, it is highly likely this has been mischaracterised and instead it was behind-the-scenes footage captured for promotional purposes. The melody and other parts were to be laid on top of my low guitar riff.” He also recollects shooting a pop promo in the Docklands area of London. Flick was the first to give us a flavour of what the tune could have been, “Michael wanted to get back to the original sound for a low bass type riff and it was hoped that I could furnish it. The next substantive mention of the track was in 2008, in ‘Vic Flick Guitarman: From James Bond to The Beatles and Beyond’ the autobiography of the famed guitarist. ‘I can’t even say that Cubby shares the blame.
The trouble is it can be reported as us being unhappy with it but in the end everything a producer does – who he hires, the instructions he gives – is the producer’s fault.’ In this instance he says, it was the producer’s fault. Or whatever ground we did break was in the wrong direction. ‘I hate to be mysterious about it but when something doesn’t work out with a major artist…um…we brought together a lot of people and we tried to do something and they all worked really hard on it and we listened to the result and…um…we didn’t feel…we didn’t really break any new ground. ‘I think we just don’t have any comment.’ Eventually he relents just a little bit. ‘Oh yeah,’ he nods, ‘That didn’t work out.’ He hesitates, ‘I’ll tell you…I can’t really…um…I think what we’ve decided to do is forget it, not really to try to relive it in the press.’ He pauses for a friendly laugh. Wilson suddenly looks a shade uncomfortable. “The Eric Clapton story had particular mileage at one stage. Journalist Chris Heath had sat down with Michael Wilson and Barbara Broccoli in EON’s then South Audley Street HQ to quiz them on the decision making process when choosing an artist to record a Bond theme.
#Licence to kill song movie
The first clue of its existence emerged in June 1989 in the very first issue of the British movie magazine, ‘Empire’. Clapton’s reported Bond demo with John Barry’s original James Bond Theme guitarist, Vic Flick was an enigma we wanted to solve. We first heard it in September 2020, the culmination of a fascinating journey unearthing the Holy Grail of lost Bond treasures which begun as COVID shut the world down.Īnybody who has read our book, ' Some Kind Of Hero: The Remarkable Story of the James Bond Films’, will know how intrigued we are by mysteries concerning 007. However, we can confirm that the recording is indeed genuine. The file posted to SoundCloud last month purporting to be Eric Clapton’s apocryphal collaboration with Michael Kamen for the 16 th James Bond film, 'Licence To Kill' has left fans split over its authenticity.
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